Lot's Happening Over At DCS

Hi everyone,

Things have been really hectic lately with my new online craft store (which is a good thing) & I haven't had much time to create any new projects. However, I have been dabbling in designing a mini album which I will be sharing with you in the next week or so.

I'm so excited to tell you that the Dreamtime Craft Supplies Inspirational Challenges will be starting on Tuesday 8th March :)  I would love it if you were to come & join us :) It will be a lot of fun!

There is some blog candy to celebrate the new challenges which you can find here.

I will be back next week to share my new design with you.
Have a great week everyone xx

Hugs

Lisa

A DCS Update

Hi my crafty friends,

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend so far.

I just thought you may like to know that there is a Design Team call happening over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies blog.

Also, you can save 20% on Magnolia Stamps at the Dreamtime Craft Supplies store.

That is a $3 saving on each stamp. Hurry though...sale ends tomorrow!

I will be posting some of my projects very soon.

Have a great weekend.

Hugs

Lisa

Sale Spotlight @ Dreamtime Craft Supplies

Hi everyone,
It is SO hot here today! I can't wait till tonight when it cools down.

Just popping in to let you know that there is 10% off on Tim Holtz Distress Markers over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies store.

Go grab some savings.

Happy paper crafting & colouring.
xx Lisa xx

My Project Monday #2

It has been a great week so far! Mind you it's only Tuesday :)

We are supposed to be having rain all week so I think it's a great time to get some crafty things happening.

This year I have promised myself to get a lot of my un-finished projects completed as I have quite a few stored away that I have been meaning to finish.  You can read more about it over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies blog. 

I am going to take part in this weeks My Project Monday over at DCS by working on a project I started back in 2014!  Yep, it was a while ago but I did put a lot of work into it before putting it away. I didn't finish it as I moved house that week.

I started making a little album. I wasn't too sure what I was going to do with it after putting it together but it was something completely out of my comfort zone & I had never created anything like this before. I was & still am quite happy with the way it turned out hence why I kept it in my cupboard & planned to complete it one day.  Well, finally that day is here.

My Mum's birthday is in April & I would like to have it ready by then to give to her as a birthday present. She hasn't got a creative bone in her body nor the patience but she loves the projects that I design. Maybe one day she will sit down with me & try her hand at paper crafting. Hmmm probably not lol. One can only hope :)

I went through two boxes of old photos that I had stored in my wardrobe & wow, so many I threw out! Just ones that were way too blurry to rescue, scenic ones that I can't even remember where I took them & animal pics from Zoo's that we went to when the kids were young that simply have no relevance to us now & they are all probably dead by now anyway...horrible thought but more than likely true.

I remember when I first created the album that I had the intention of creating it with as many paper & embellishment scraps (which I call challenge pieces) as I could. For my challenge pieces I have three different containers full of odds & bobs that I feel could come in handy one day (more on that another time), so I dug through it & found a few pieces that I could possibly use on the first page of the album.

Hopefully, it will all come together nicely.  Wish me luck :)

Thanks so much for visiting & why don't you join me in My Project Monday? Surely you have some un-finished projects that you have been meaning to complete? Go have a look, I bet you do. I challenge you :)

Happy crafting
xx Lisa xx

DCS: Show Us Saturday #1

Happy New Year to all of you :)

I hope you all had a fantastic time & enjoyed celebrations.

This last week has been quite hectic with trying to relax & enjoy the festive season with my family & friends but now that my business is up & running it's a bit hard to not think about all the things that need to be done. However, I tried my best with not touching my laptop :)  Now I can get back into it again.

Last week I participated in the My Project Monday over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies blog & showed you that I was hopefully going to find the time to pretty up my planner pages. I am happy to say that I did actually do it.

I bought my planner last year but didn't get to use it much so I figured why not re-model it for 2016?!

I first needed to find a planner printable that co-ordinated with the planner page colours. Luckily, I found a blog called Laughing & Losing It where Christina has made this gorgeous hedgehog planner printable. I just had to have it in my planner :) Thanks so much Christina for making this available.

I have to admit that it took me a while to figure out what I was going to do to change the dates but after a little bit of thinking & looking at all those pretty planners on my Pinterest board, I came up with a solution.

I used my Little Lizzie font Die-Versions die to create the days & dates of the week & stuck everything down with Ranger Glossy Accents...wow, do you know how strong that stuff is as a glue? Talk about dry fast! lol

I only wrote in a few things on the planner pages that are in accordance to my business blog but I will write in all the other to-do items later.  I just didn't want to bore you with my business stuff lol.

I had a good time putting together my planner pages & will definitely be doing it again. Even though this is the first time I have done this to any planner of mine, I am pretty happy with the outcome. It was good to finally get some time to get some crafting done even if it was to decorate a planner lol.

Have you created anything in the last week?
Enter it into Show Us Saturday over at Dreamtime Craft Designs blog?
You may just get your project featured on the blog. Go check it out.

I really hope you had a great Christmas & New Year.
Here's to a fantastic 2016!

Thanks for popping by & happy crafting

xx Lisa xx

P.S  I really need to update the design of this blog as it's driving me crazy lol. 

DCS: My Project Monday #1 - Pretty Planner

Now that it is coming up to the New Year I figured that I really should be using my Erin Condren Planner.

I did actually purchase it during this year but I never really got around to putting it to proper use. Therefore, I have decided not to purchase another one & to use the one I already have. However, due to the planner not having the correct corresponding days & dates of 2016 I really need to come up with a creative plan of how to make the planner work for me.

Even though I am incredibly run off my feet with my online paper craft store, Dreamtime Craft Supplies, I will definitely find time adjusting & decorating the planner my project for this week for DCS My Project Monday #1.

I intend to use the items in the pic to decorate the planner with & will share them with you in another post when it is complete.  You know how it is, sometimes you plan to use products but when you actually get down to creating you end up using different items lol.

I would like to enter this project into the following online events:

DCS - My Project Monday #1

Are you starting a new project this week or stuck on a project that you need to work on but need friendly encouragement to complete?

Enter the My Project Monday event over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies blog.

Hope to see you there :)

xx Lisa xx

N.B: This post contains my Erin Condren affiliate link which means if you decide to purchase a planner for yourself, I will earn a cappuccino :)

Dreamtime Craft Supplies

Hello friends,

For what seems the longest time I have been busy in the background with creating my new online paper craft store Dreamtime Craft Supplies. Finally, I am happy to announce that the store has now launched :)  

Dreamtime Craft Supplies isn't like any other store! It has been designed and structured specifically for you, my friends, that are avid paper crafters who like to create and add your designs and projects to your blogs on a regular basis.

The special feature that is launching in early 2016 is something to get excited about! Many of you will appreciate and will realise the massive potential behind the opportunity which will help you to montetise your craft blogs but also bring you more traffic in a big way! Go check it out.

Yesterday, I also launched the new Dreamtime Craft Supplies blog and to celebrate I am hosting a blog candy event. Lots of wonderful goodies up for grabs that you can win! All you need to do is visit the blog & enter. Come and join in on the fun :)

I hope to see you there.

xx Lisa xx

Dreamtime Designs Challenge Winner!

Hello Friends :)

Wow, it has been quite a while since I have been here.

My apologies for being away. Many of you probably thought that I wouldn't be back but as you know life tends to get in the way sometimes & we simply have little or no control over it.  However, it feels great to be back :)

There are a few things that have changed since the last time I was here.  Unfortunately, I am sorry to say that one of the changes was ending our Dreamtime Designs Craft Challenges.  I knew that I would be away for a few months so I had to do the right thing by the Design Team & myself by closing the challenges.  It was pretty hard to close it all down but at least the ladies & I still stay in touch via our Facebook group which is great.

In saying that, I offer my deepest apologies for causing any inconvenience to all of you for not announcing the winner of Challenge #3 any earlier.

Today, right now I will let you know who the winner is.  Are you ready?

We had a FABULOUS sponsor

Through the Craftroom Door

offering the winner a full 12 month subscription to their magazine.

Thank you so much Colleen :)

The WINNER is:

 #1 - Lisa S

from

Adventures In Cardland 

Congratulations Lisa S.

Please contact me with your email address within 7 days to claim your prize :)

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I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the DDCC Design Team.  Thank you ladies for all of the great designs you created for the challenges & for all of the support you gave me when I was going through that rough time.  I am ever-so grateful to all of you.

A very special thank you to my friend Roberta for looking after the team, my blog & everything else that you did while I was away.  Thank you so much hun & I hope you get better soon xx

I would also like to thank all of you who participated & followed us through our wonderful venture :)  It was so much fun & I hope you had fun too.

Thank you so much everyone.

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I have so much great news to tell all of you but until then how about some
FREE blog candy?

I will be back soon with another post showing you what candy you could win.  So make sure you keep a look out for it :)  See you then...

Hugs xxx

DDCC Challenge #3 EXTENDED!!

Hello and Happy New Year everyone!!

All of us at Dreamtime Designs would like to wish you a blessed and crafty 2014!

This is Roberta posting again for Lisa.

She is busy planning a wedding!

The entire Design Team is absolutely ecstatic for her and her love, Bez.  We hope that the joy of their big day is only the beginning of the happiness they share ever after.

I'm happy to tell you that we are extending Challenge #3.

The gals on the DT have been discussing it.  We decided that because so many of you were probably lucky enough to get some new crafting goodies over the past couple of weeks that this would be a great time for you to try them out.

A little reminder of the theme of Challenge #3:

My Techniques:

A Technique I've Never Tried Before

Previously, we had included a Christmas twist to the theme.  That has now been eliminated to allow any projects to be eligible.  As long as you are using a new technique and tell us what that technique is, you're good to go!

We are also going to allow for 2 entries per person on this challenge.  All other rules remain the same.  You can check those out here.

Our prize will remain the same for Challenge #3.  We are so lucky to be able to offer a one year subscription to

A subscription to Through the Craft Room Door includes scores of fabulous tutorials and great inspiration pieces.  You will also gain access to dozens of free digis that have been featured in previous issues.  The value of the digis alone makes your subscription price a huge value!!

Now, what are you waiting for!?  Go get those new toys tools and get to work.  With the holidays beginning to appear in our rear view mirrors, we might just have time to begin creating and trying out those new techinques!  All of the Design Team is really excited to see what it is that you are going to try.

Have fun and be sure to come back and share it with us!

Just click on the badge below to be taken to the link up.

Challenge #3 at DDCC

Hello everyone!

It's Roberta here, standing in for our jet-setting leader Lisa.

While she is enjoying a fabulous and much deserved holiday adventure, I'll be posting the details of our 3rd challenge.

Before I get to that though, I'd like to thank our one participant in November challenge.  Mrs. A you are a fantastic crafter and we all really hope that your new light box is a huge help to you!  

For anyone looking for a great new light box, please check out Mrs. A's project...she did a bang up job!!

If you didn't get a chance to participate, no worries... all of the past challenges will be re-opened.  Each time you complete one of the previous challenges, you'll receive a special badge to show your accomplishment.

You can find the Linky tools for the re-opened Challenges here.

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This month we are so pleased to have as our sponsor

Through the Craft Room Door

Through The Craft Room Magazine is offering a one year subscription to the next Shining Star Winner of DreamTime Designs Craft challenge. TTCRD is an online paper craft magazine which can be downloaded to your personal computer and is filled with tutorials, inspirations and articles for the subscribers to read.  Your subscription also allows you access to past issues including over 80 free digital images to create cards, scrapbook and projects with.

Would you love to be publish and have a chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate to the store of your choice? You can do this by submitting a paper craft creation to the magazine - details for submissions is located on the web site which you can join for free.

In addition to our Shining Star Winner, our Top 5 will be carefully selected in order of 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc, by our DDCC DT ladies.  A Top 5 badge will be awarded in recognition to the winning places. 

We reward ALL those who participate & complete our challenges with a DDCC Conquered badge.  All you need to do is enter the challenge :)

At Dreamtime Designs Craft Challenge everyone wins something.

We believe YOU deserve the recognition of all the hard work you put into your project :)

Now....on to the new challenge!  Yay!!!

Lisa came up with a fabulous theme for you to play with during December!!

My Techniques - Christmas:

A Technique I've Never Tried Before

This challenge revolves around the theme of Christmas & expanding your skills with a brand new technique you have never tried before but yet always wanted to.

A couple of things that we would like to see included in your post are:

1) Why did you want to try this technique?

2) What has been your experience with it?

>>Please note that the questions are an important part of the challenge.  They need to be included along with your answers in your blog post.<<

Here are the DDCC Design Team & their projects :)

You will notice that there is only a sneak peek so you will need to click on the image which will take you to their blog to see their completed project.  Don't forget to leave a comment on their challenge post as they have worked extremely hard on their projects & they would love to know what you think on their take of the challenge.

**I've only had access to the sneak peeks too so I'm ready to see all of the completed projects!!**

Dreamette Mikha

Designette Emmey

Dreamette Sam

Dreamette Julie

Dreamette Roberta

(That's me!!)

Designette Gemma

Dreamette Cindy

Designette Joanne

Joanne's project didn't go quite the way she had hoped.
She is a hugely talented lady so this is proof that even the best among us can have a rough time at a new technique.
Please go take a look at her post....
the amount of work she put into this was amazing.
All of the DT sisters are just so disappointed for her!
But we know a determined woman like Joanne
will be back at it as soon as she can!!!
Can't wait to see the next go 'round.

Some pretty intriguing peeks, right?

Go take a complete look at all of the projects and then get to work on yours!  We can't wait to see what you all come up with for this super fun challenge!!

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Challenge Guidelines:

Who can enter: Anyone

Specifications: You must have a blog

Number of entries:  Only one entry per person is allowed

Deadline: 31st December (Australian Timezone)

(To see the complete rules & guidelines click here)

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JOIN THE DDCC FACEBOOK GROUP

Want to chat about the challenge, share ideas & make some friends? 

Come & join in on the conversations in our new Facebook group. 

You can join here.

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Are you up to the Dreamtime Designs Craft Challenge?

Enter your challenge project below with our wonderful Mr Linky :)

(If in the event that Mr Linky isn't working please submit your entry blog link to the comments section below.)

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

All of us on the Design Team hope to see many new projects this month.

And we all can't wait to hear of Lisa' grand adventure!

Wonder what kind of wonderful things she's going to able to share!?!

Hugs all around,

Roberta

DDCC Dreamette

DDCC DT Designer In The Spotlight

Good morning again my lovelies.

Wow, a new post each day for the last few days.  Things are looking up lol.

Today I am here to announce the Design Team Winner for

Designer In The Spotlight :)

We have all had a lot happen this last month but our Design Team is really strong & our focus being on our DDCC projects.  We are all amazed with how our friendships have formed since we started this fantastic little adventure &  it is very much like a family environment that we all love.  

Thank you to the DT ladies for giving all their heart in completing all the challenges set forth to them.  You have conquered them all with flying colours & I am so proud to have you part of the team :)  Way to go ladies & thanks so much from the bottom of my heart for helping me make DDCC a success.

Each month we all nominate just one DT member to win the Spotlight.

This can be down to their interaction in the group, offering help to others, promoting DDCC & even down to how they did with their last challenge.  There are many elements that go into play for reaching our decision & of course we would love to nominate them all.  However, there can only be one winner.

The winner will be rewarded & win the following:

- To be featured on Dreamtime Designs blog for the month.

- A DT Sisier In The Spotlight blog badge

- WIN a AU $20 Voucher from any online shop of their choice.

The DDCC DT In The Spotlight Winner is...

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Congratulations Emmey :)  You really deserve this hun.  

Here are some of the reasons that were given for your nomination:

- Your design with Challenge # 2 was great & your results were fab

- Your tutorial was enjoyable & easy to follow

- Your humour and participation in our DT Facebook group

- A constant source of inspiration & motivation

- You are always getting us involved & motivated in the group

- You keep us all in check & ask us for advice when needed

- A happy-go-lucky little Smurfette who doesn't mind getting her hands dirty (with blue ink)

-  You make us laugh till our sides hurt

Thank you so much Emmey for your participation & inspiration at DDCC.

We all love your commitment to the team & thank you for it :)

Please go visit Emmey's blog & give her your best wishes.

I know she would luuurrrve to hear from you :)

You can do that here.

Thank you to the rest of the ladies in the Design Team for your nominations.

Maybe it will be YOU next month :)

Don't forget to have a go at our very unique challenge at DDCC. 

We would love to see your creations & you could Win $20 cash! 

Hope to see you there :)

Big hugs xxx

Thank goodness for social media :)  Feel free to keep up with me :)

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Winners Of Challenge #1 @ DDCC :)

Good morning :)

It is a dull dreary & rainy day today so it is the perfect time to do some crafting & designing :)

We only had two entries for Challenge #1 at

Dreamtime Designs Craft Challenge

but boy they were very impressive!

It was tough with choosing the winner as they were both brilliant.  We would have liked to have chosen both designs but we could only choose one.

Our Shining Star Winner of Challenge #1 is:

Mrs. A

We love how Mrs. A has taken a place that is very special to her & created a replica of it beautifully into a smaller paper craft world.  The detail is absolutely amazing!  

Congratulations Mrs. A :)  

Feel free to take your badge & please contact me using the contact form on the sidebar with your PayPal details so that you can claim your winning prize of AU$20.

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Our 1st Place Winner is:

KT Fit Kitty

This is truly a gorgeous design with an array of wonderful elements.

The story behind the project is truly adorable.

Congratulations KT Fit Kitty.

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Thank you so much for sharing part of your world with us & for entering the challenge.  It definitely wasn't an easy one & you both did a fantastic job :)

Have you all seen Challenge #2?  You can find it here.

We would love for you all to give it a go :)

Hope to see you there.

Big hugs xx

Thank goodness for social media :)  Feel free to keep up with me :)

Facebook - I hold regular giveaways & discounts on my designs - Click here

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Menu Board - My Besties Aussie Challenge

Happy Sunday everyone :)

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

Today I am just popping in to show you my design for the 

My Besties Aussie Challenge which is:

Use Pearls

Pretty easy hey?

I decided to do something completely different.

But I of course needed to use a gorgeous Bestie first which you can find here.

I used the following Copic colours:

Skin: E0000, 000, 00, 11, 21, R20

Hair: E21, 25, 29, 50

Outfit: C0, 1, 3, G00, 82, 85, 94, B93, 95, 97,99, 

R22, 27, 29, YR00, 20, 31, Y17 

Blender

Want to pin the Copic colour combo?

Click here

Each peg has the day of the week on it & the labels have different meals printed on them.  These can be moved around in accordance to when the meal is planned for the week.

There are spare labels in the pouch to write more meals on them.

There is a post-it note pad along with a pencil that can be used to write your shopping list in accordance to the meals planned for the week.

I had a lot of fun creating this menu board & I am definitely going to make more of them.  Not only does it help organise meals for the week but it also looks great on the fridge :)

This design will be going into my Etsy shop in a few days.

If you would like to pin this design to your Pinterest board:

Click here

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I would like to include my design into the following challenges:

Crafty Creations #246 - Make it yourself 

Charismas Cardz #43 - Anything but cards

ABC - Y is for Yellow

Whimsy Stamps #65 - Anything Goes

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Thank you so much for coming to visit :)

Don't forget to have a go at our very unique challenge at DDCC. 

We would love to see your creations & you could Win $20 cash! 

Hope to see you there :)

Big hugs xxx

Thank goodness for social media :)  Feel free to keep up with me :)

Facebook - I hold regular giveaways & discounts on my designs - Click here

Twitter - Tweet tweet - Click here

Pinterest - Yes I'm addicted lol - Click here